This month, a friend and I started a company called Fanspeak Interactive LLC. This is technically my second business, after Orsini Bowers Media. But while OBM is really just a…
There is SO MUCH amazing anime this season that Lost in Anime’s Guardian Enzo reviewed 20+ first episodes! So did Josei Next Door, but she impressively managed to shave her watch-list…
First, drop off the face of the Earth. Let stuff lapse—your blog, your business, your relationships. Get so flaky with your friends that one of them calls you, worried, because you…
How much money do you cost the anime industry when you illegally stream? Jenbae’s model is a guesstimate by her own account, but it still went viral. It shows that there’s absolutely…
Twenty years in advance: Be a Girl Scout. When it comes time to choose a country for your troop to study for Thinking Day, choose Japan. Taste sushi for the…
Funimation is bringing everyone’s favorite ’90s shoujo mecha series, The Vision of Escaflowne, to Blu-Ray with a Kickstarter campaign. In just 3 days, it’s already funded! What do you think about established…
My friend invited me to go doujinshi shopping in Akihabara when I’m there next month. What an amazing opportunity—to buy lovingly drawn yaoi in its country of origin. Only, I…
Fushigi Yuugi is now streaming on Crunchyroll in its entirety. This is one of the first anime I ever heard about, though in the Before Times I couldn’t get my…